Ep. 43: Changeling (2008) with Bilge Ebiri

Get ready to sue the LAPD, everybody: this week we're examining Clint's 2008 child abduction docudrama CHANGELING with critic and writer Bilge Ebiri! From the metatextual depth of Angelina Jolie's performance to the film's status as Clint's first ACAB movie to ongoing moves by the state to use forced institutionalization against unhoused and other "inconvenient" people to Bilge's childhood memories of Clint (and of Peter Medak's THE CHANGELING), this is a real corker of a chat! Excited to share it with you, our beloved listeners, whom we love as if you were our own uncircumcised children. Topics include: taking Bilge to task for something he wrote in 2014, public transit, Mike Leigh's ANOTHER YEAR for some reason, SALT, Universal Studios Blu-rays, the 2008 Universal backlot fire, a PHANTOM MENACE connection, celebrity activsm, the history of anti-institutionalization movements, comparing CHANGELING's execution scene to those in TRUE CRIME and A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING, conservative art, and more! Here are Bilge's pieces on Clint that we mention in the episode: https://www.vulture.com/2010/10/will_this_clint_eastwood_movie.html https://ebiri.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-clint-matters.html https://ebiri.blogspot.com/2011/07/outlaw-josey-wales-mending-patchwork.html Follow Bilge Ebiri: https://twitter.com/BilgeEbiri https://www.vulture.com/author/bilge-ebiri/   https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart